−Removed: Factors that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition
−Removed: and/or results of operations are described in the 2021 Form 10-K.
−Removed: Additional risk factors not presently known to us or that we currently
−Removed: deem immaterial may also impair our business, financial condition and/or results of operations.
−Removed: As of the date of this Quarterly Report
−Removed: on Form 10-Q, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our 2021 Form 10-K, other than the inflation rate risk
−Removed: discussed below.
+Added: Factors that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial
+Added: condition and/or results of operations are described in the 2021 Form 10-K.
+Added: Additional risk factors not presently known to us or that
+Added: we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business, financial condition and/or results of operations.
+Added: As of the date of this Quarterly
+Added: Report on Form 10-Q, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our 2021 Form 10-K, other than the inflation
+Added: rate risk and share repurchase risk discussed below.
Inflation Rate Risk
−Removed: Beginning in April 2021, the inflation rate in the US, as measured by the Consumer
−Removed: Price Index (CPI) has steadily increased.
−Removed: In 2019, the inflation rate was approximately 1.8%, while it dropped to approximately 1.2% in
−Removed: These data are reported monthly, showing year-over-year changes in prices across a basket of goods and services.
−Removed: For 2021, inflation
−Removed: increased from the 1.4%-2.6% range in the first quarter, to 4.2% in April, and was in the 5.0% range through the end of the third quarter
−Removed: of 2021, before increasing to the 6.0%-7.0% range in the fourth quarter.
−Removed: For the full year, the inflation rate was 4.7% in 2021, the highest
−Removed: annual rate since the 5.4% rate recorded in 1990.
−Removed: The inflation rate continued to increase throughout the first quarter of 2022, reaching
−Removed: approximately 8.5% in March 2022.
−Removed: The increased inflation rate has had an impact on the Company’s expenses in several areas, including
−Removed: wages, fuel and medical and other supplies.
−Removed: This has compressed gross profit margins, as the Company is generally unable to pass these
−Removed: higher costs on to its customers, particularly in the short term.
−Removed: Looking to the rest of 2022, we anticipate a moderation of the inflation
−Removed: rate when compared to the first quarter of the year, but expect that inflation will remain above the levels seen in the previous 10 years,
−Removed: when the annual inflation rate ranged from 0.1% to 2.4%.
−Removed: If inflation is above the levels that the Company anticipates in 2022, gross
−Removed: margins could be below plan and our business, operating results and cash flows may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
−Removed: Defaults Upon Senior Securities
−Removed: Mine Safety Disclosures
+Added: Beginning in April 2021, the
+Added: inflation rate in the US, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has steadily increased.
+Added: In 2019, the inflation rate was approximately
+Added: 1.8%, while it dropped to approximately 1.2% in 2020.
+Added: These data are reported monthly, showing year-over-year changes in prices across
+Added: a basket of goods and services.
+Added: For 2021, inflation increased from the 1.4%-2.6% range in the first quarter, to 4.2% in April, and was
+Added: in the 5.0% range through the end of the third quarter of 2021, before increasing to the 6.0%-7.0% range in the fourth quarter.
+Added: full year, the inflation rate was 4.7% in 2021, the highest annual rate since the 5.4% rate recorded in 1990.
+Added: The inflation rate continued
+Added: to increase throughout the second quarter of 2022, reaching approximately 9.1% in June 2022.
+Added: The increased inflation rate has had an impact
+Added: on the Company’s expenses in several areas, including wages, fuel and medical and other supplies.
+Added: This has compressed gross profit
+Added: margins, as the Company is generally unable to pass these higher costs on to its customers, particularly in the short term.
+Added: the rest of 2022, we anticipate a moderation of the inflation rate when compared to the first quarter of the year but expect that inflation
+Added: will remain above the levels seen in the previous 10 years, when the annual inflation rate ranged from 0.1% to 2.4%.
+Added: If inflation is above
+Added: the levels that the Company anticipates in 2022, gross margins could be below plan.
+Added: Share Repurchase Program Risk
+Added: We have adopted a share repurchase program to repurchase shares of
+Added: our common stock;
+Added: however, any future decisions to reduce or discontinue repurchasing our common stock pursuant to our share repurchase
+Added: program could cause the market price for our common stock to decline.
+Added: Although our Board has authorized the share repurchase program, any
+Added: determination to execute our share repurchase program will be subject to, among other things, our financial position and results of operations,
+Added: available cash and cash flow, capital requirements and other factors, as well as our Board’s continuing determination that the repurchase
+Added: program is in the best interests of our stockholders and is in compliance with all laws and agreements applicable to the repurchase program.
+Added: Our share repurchase program does not obligate us to acquire any common stock.
+Added: If we fail to meet any expectations related to share repurchases,
+Added: the market price of our common stock could decline, and could have a material adverse impact on investor confidence.
+Added: Additionally, price
+Added: volatility of our common stock over a given period may cause the average price at which we repurchase our common stock to exceed the stock’s
+Added: market price at a given point in time.
+Added: We may further increase or decrease the amount
+Added: of repurchases of our common stock in the future.
+Added: Any reduction or discontinuance by us of repurchases of our common stock pursuant to
+Added: our current share repurchase program could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
+Added: Moreover, in the event repurchases of
+Added: our common stock are reduced or discontinued, our failure or inability to resume repurchasing common stock at historical levels could
+Added: result in a lower market valuation of our common stock.
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